(1) Liquor in unlicensed places. No person shall mix or prepare liquor for consumption in any public place or place of business unless it has a license to sell liquor on-sale or a permit from the Commissioner of Public Safety under M.S. § 340A.414, as it may be amended from time to time. No person shall consume liquor in any place, unless licensed or permitted.
(2) Consumption in public places. No person shall consume intoxicating liquor in a public park, on any public street, sidewalk, parking lot or alley or in any public place other than on the premises of an establishment licensed under this chapter, or where consumption and display of liquor is lawfully permitted.
(3) Hours. No on-sale or off-sale of liquor shall be made, nor any licensed premises be occupied, after 2:00 a.m. on Sunday nor until 8:00 a.m. on Monday, except that a holder of a Sunday on-sale license may sell liquor between 8:00 a.m. on Sunday and 2:00 a.m on Mondays and the holder of a off-sale license may sell liquor between 11:00 a..m. and 6:00 p.m. on Sunday. No on-sale shall be made between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. on any weekday. No on-sale shall be made after 8:00 p.m. on December 24. No off-sale shall be made before 8:00 a.m. or after 10:00 p.m. of any day except that no off-sale shall be made on December 24 after 8:00 p.m. No off-sale shall be made on Thanksgiving Day or Christmas Day, December 25.
(Am. Ord. 10-83, passed 10-11-1983; Am. Ord. 13-83, passed 12-27-1983.; Am. Ord. 02-05, passed 6-13-2005; Am. Ord. 04-15, passed 7-27-2015; Am. Ord. 03-17, passed 6-26-2017)
(4) Vacation of premises. No licensee shall permit any person other than his or her employees to remain on the licensed premises more than 30 minutes after the time during which sales of liquor may legally be made. No person other than the licensee or his or her employees shall remain on the licensed premises more than 30 minutes after the time during which sales of liquor may legally be made. The presence of any person other than the licensee or his or her employees within, entering or leaving the premises more than 30 minutes after the time during which liquor may legally be sold shall be prima facie evidence of violation of this division. For purposes of this division, PREMISES shall mean any portion of the address or legal description to which the license is issued, including, but not limited to, the entire land area of the parcel, the interior or exterior of buildings or portions of buildings thereon, any entrance ways into any buildings, any sidewalk, parking lots, whether paved or not, and any adjoining unimproved land areas in the parcels.
(Prior Code, § 701.09) (Am. Ord. 13-83, passed 12-27-1983; Am. Ord. 11-89, passed 12-11-1989; Am. Ord. 13-02, passed 10-28-2002)